The Irish standard., 1887-09-10
ST. PAUL..

A number of new members joined the
typographical union at the meeting on
Sunday last.
The family of Capt. O'Connor, col
lector of customs, have moved in from
their summer cottage at White Bear.
Miss Marion Sullivan, who has been
visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. John Rogers,
Jr.. has returned to her home at Chi
cago.
The custom collections for the month
of August amounts to SILT, ,o62. As. The
Manitoba road paid $185, ,362.60 on rail-
road iron.
Our readers should be on the watch
for crooks and burglars while the state
fair is being held. Lock the doc, be-
fore the money is stolen.
Representative Prosser, OF high IL
cense fame, was in st. Paul last week,
and expressed himself as we'll pleased
with the workings OF the new Law.
The street car company are busy at
work completing the Oakland avenue
gtreet car line and expect to have 1t IN
running order by the first OF October.
NJ. j. Bell. register of deeds, cele-
brated his 44th birthday Monday last,
and the employees OF his Office presented
him with s. very fine silver water ser
vice.
J. Ell. Burns, deputy oil inspector for
St. Louis county, has resigned and
Frank 2. Buell., an old St. Paul boy,
now OF Duluth, has been appointed to
The vacancy.
The health officers report for the
month Of August gives the number OF
deaths ct 1872, against 294 for the month
Of July. There were twenty deaths
from typhoid fever.
Thomas Mccarthy, Of West st. Paul
while unloading stone at Central Park,
a few days ago, had his left leg broken.
He was removed to his home and ply
sic;au reduced the fractured limb.
r.. q. Dun Il Co. report the prospects
good for fine fall trade in all lines.
The failures in the Northwest are few
and small, collections are good, and fall
trade has begun one month earllen than
usual.
2. r. Kavanagh, the great real estate
boomer, has been out to the mines OF
Montana and returned homs the first OF
the week we'll satisfied with his trip, but
more devoted than ever to his first love
st. Paul.
The Manitoba road will run trains
every fifteen minutes from the union
depot to the fair grounds. Great prep
srations are under way which will end
in the finest display ever before seen at
p state fair.
III. C. Howard, state dairy conmis-
yioner, was discharged on the first inst,
and r. c.. Judson, Of Pennington, ap~
pointed in his stead. Mr.. Judson is
known throughout the state az the ex-
secretary of the state fair association,
A. B. Sticiney, president Of the Min
nesota & Northwestern railroad, has
purchased the Metropolitan hotel, and
runoor says that he will remodel the
building and donate it to the city to be
used for public library and an art gal-
lery.
We would advise consumers Of coal
and wood to look out for an almost GER
tain rise in the near future. In this
section Of the country, where we burn
coal for six or seven months, the expense |
is no small item, and q penny saved is a
penny earned.
The sale Of stamps at the st. Paul
postotfice for the month Of August
amounted to $22, 77209, an increase Of
33 per cent. over the same month last |
year. The total business Of the post
Office in August was 1926 1872 98 against
$269, ,S74 .2S for August 1886.
The estate OF the late Commodore |
Davidson, according to the report of
theappraisers, amounts to 49, 504, ,628 .2S,
the greater amount being in improved
real estate. Such buildings ae the
Grand Opera House, Union, Court and
Davidson blocks belong to the estate.
J. F. Hughes has been 'Fdoing up"
Dakota Tor some time past in the inter-
est of the Champion Harvester company,
of Chicago. j. f. is q most reliable
gentleman wherever placed-a man OF
good business qualifications, No Won
der that he is about to be captured by
Dakota belle.
VIM. johnson kept hotel in an old
n.